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TIL that Robert Liston is the only surgeon to have a 300% mortality rate - the patient, the surgical assistant and a spectator all died

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R7mQl TIL that having a substantial amount of fat in the buttocks that extends to the front and back thighs and tapers to knee, causing a curvaceous figure, is called “steatopygia”
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